LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (2)
— Soon after daybreak on the 1st May some of the fishing cobles went off to their lobster and crab-pots. About 6 A.M. the N.N.E. wind increased to a moderate gale and the sea became very heavy.
A good look-out was kept, and...
Fishing Cobles
When four of the fishing cobles were out fishing on the 5th January the sea became heavy, and the danger flag, intimating that it was not safe for them to enter the harbour, was hoisted.
Shortly after one o'clock it was...
None (4)
On the 19th of August, 1952, the bowman of the Bridlington life-boat lost his life when the life-boat went to the help of two girls who had got into difficulties while bathing. Awards: the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to...
Two Sailing Dinghies
SIX PEOPLE THROWN INTO SEA Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.57 on the morning of Tuesday the 27th of August, 1963, the Bembridge coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized and that another sailing dinghy...
The Second Hen Island Challenge Race
The second Hen Island Challenge Race, for home-built craft which have cost no more than £25 and which have never before put to sea, was sailed in Northern Ireland last October; Portaferry D class inflatable lifeboat acted as one of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
The Queen, accompanied by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I-, Commander F. R. H. Swarm, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. (right), and Mr. C. G. Rickett, president of the Leander Club, Henley, disembarking from The Royal British Legion Jubilee at Henley on 17th... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Terry George
Cox/Mech Cox/Mech Neil Brockman Terry George Bronze Medal Bronze Medal Coxswain/Mechanic Neil Brockman of Penlee's Arun class lifeboat and Coxswain/ Mechanic Terry George of Sennen Cove's Mersey class were awarded their medals for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Aeroplanes
MAY 24TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.40 P.M. the senior naval officer reported that two aeroplanes had crashed in flames, and the motor lifeboat John and Charles Kennedy was launched at 4.45 P.M. A light westerly...
Coxswain Wickham of Rosslare Harbour
JAMES WICKHAM, a former Rosslare Harbour coxswain, died on the 6th of December, 1953, at the age of 78.
Coxswain Wickham was a son of the late Coxswain Thomas Wickham of the Wexford life-boat. He himself succeeded his...
Category: Obituaries
Jellicoe Rose
FEBRUARY 6TH and 9TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 8.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that red rockets had been fired by a vessel three miles north-west of St.
Agnes Head, and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and...